Ellis Island Tales: Traces / Memoires

A landmark documentary on the places of Diaspora and the immigrant’s condition of inner exile, where the archimedean point for director Robert Bober’s and narrator/scriptwriter’s reasoning is Ellis Island – the piece of land across Manhattan, where the National Museum of Immigration is built today. A film about the tension between our desire to grow roots and our confrontation with the shapeless nature of human life.

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Direction: Robert Bober

Script: Georges Perec

Format: DCP

Color: Color

Production Country: France

Production Year: 1980

Duration: 57' / 60'

Contact: INA Films

Robert Bober

Filmography

1980 Traces, Recits D' Ellis Island-Parts 1 & 2 | Traces, Ellis Island Tales-Parts 1 & 2
2002 Franz Kafka, Lettres à Felice et à Milena
2017 Vienne Avant la Nuit